Biography

About Abraham Salomons and his Parish wife Suzanne van Moppes.

Abraham Salomons, the 7th of the 13 children of Meijer Salomons and Bloeme de Paauw, was born in Hilversum on 12 March 1896. The family lived there in the Langestraat 35 ground floor. As an apprentice brilliant adjuster, Abraham was trained from 23 April 1911 at the workshop "De Bloem" of S. Salomons, where he successfully completed his apprenticeship on 20 March 1914 and immediately became a member of the ANDB, the “Algemene Nederlandse Diamantbewerkers Bond”,(General Dutch Diamond Workers' Union).

When Abraham was still unmarried, he left for Antwerp and, in addition to working as a diamond worker, he also traded in diamonds. In 1921 he lived there at Arendstraat 47 and from March 1924 at Van den Nestlei 11. He "left" from there in 1930, after which on 18 May 1931 the Mr. "Chief Commissioner Office of Foreigners" of the City of Antwerp received notice that Abraham Salomons apparently had already left for Holland for more than a year - further address unknown.  

However, it turned out that Abraham Salomons had not left for Holland, but for Paris, where he had married Suzanne van Moppes on 24 February 1930, who was born there on 10 April 1904. After the marriage was concluded, Abraham and Suzanne probably visited the Netherlands, because their son Roger Henri Meijer Salomons was born in Haarlem on 29 September 1930. However, the boy died there after just 5 days on 4 October 1930 and was buried at the Jewish Cemetery Amsterdamsevaart in Haarlem.   

Abraham and Suzanne then stayed briefly at Hartenstraat 13 2nd stock in Amsterdam, then again briefly in Paris and then again in Hilversum, from where they were registered on 4 February 1932 at Leidsekade 83 in Amsterdam, where they lived with Wilhelm J.P. Hashoff. On 21 April 1933 they moved to Wouwermanstraat 22 3rd stock, where they also found a place to live, and on 17 December 1935 to Roerstraat 36, 2nd floor, where they lived with Abraham's brother Alex Salomons. By the time Alex left for Tel Aviv, Abraham and Suzanne had found housing again at Valeriusstraat 155 in Amsterdam on 11 June 1936. 

At the time of the mandatory registration of all Jews in the Netherlands in 1941, Abraham and Suzanne were both “gesperrt bis auf weiteres”. Abraham was provisionally exempted from deportation because of “diamond” and his wife Suzanne because of her husband. She previously worked as an interior designer. Both were registered at the address Kribbestraat 35, 1st floor, where they had to move on 20 May 1942. From 10 September 1942, Abraham worked for the Jewish Council as an employee of the HAV Lekstraat Amsterdam (Help to Departurers) department, for which he received the I.D. no. JR-B-910-HAV.

In May 1943, exemptions from deportation (Sperres) turned out to be worthless. Numerous raids followed, one of the most infamous of which was that of 20 June 1943, which the Germans had secretly prepared and during which 5550 Jewish residents of Amsterdam were arrested and taken to Westerbork, including Abraham Salomons and his wife Suzanne van Moppes. For unknown reasons, Abraham ended up in the penal barrack 67 and Suzanne in barrack 58.

On 29 June 1943, both were put on transport to extermination camp Sobibor, together with another 2395 deportees. All were immediately murdered in the gas chambers upon arrival there on 2 July 1943. There were no survivors.

Sources include the City Archive of Amsterdam, family registration cards of Meijer Salomons (1863) and Abraham Salomons; archive cards of 0Abraham Salomons and Suzanne van Moppes; the Felix Archive/Dossier of Foreigners of Antwerp no. 166341; website menbership of the ANDB/Abraham Salomons; various residence cards of Amsterdam; Population Registry of Amsterdam for temporary stay/Abraham Salomons and Suzanne van Moppes;the file cabinet of the Jewish Council, registration cards of Abraham Salomons and Suzanne Salomons-van Moppes; deathf certificate no. 221 from register A29-38v dated 19 April 1950 for Suzanne van Moppes made out in Amsterdam; death certificate 1064 of 6 October 1930 for Roger Henri Meijer Salomons made out in Haarlem and the website Jodentransporten vanuit Nederland.nl/transport 29 Juni 1943.

 

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